John McCain lost young voters on Election Day even in some of the nation’s reddest states. How big a problem is that for the future of the Republican Party?
Massachusetts once again leads all other states in moving its economy away from the old industrial “smokestack-chasing” model to one based on technology, creativity and innovation, a new report released Nov. 18 said.
Dubbed the “Paris Hilton Bill,” California legislation to ban a pet from riding on a driver’s lap suffered a setback at the hands of a harried governor. But at least four other states are considering similar laws.
Against a dismal economic backdrop for the news industry, the nation’s statehouse reporters gathered Saturday (Nov. 15) to honor the best of their work at the ninth annual conference of CapitolBeat, an association of reporters and editors who cover state government.
States aren’t waiting for help from Washington, D.C., to boost their economies. More than half a dozen have passed or proposed their own economic stimulus packages designed to reinvigorate local businesses with new construction, loans to hometown banks and other job-creating activities.
Frequently the option of last resort, tax increases are on the table in California, Nevada and Oregon as more states try to confront budget problems and the ailing economy.
Cold-weather states across the country will need hundreds of thousands of tons of salt to keep roads and highways safe this winter. But prices are running two and three times higher than last year, forcing some states and municipalities to make do with less.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — As Americans send the country’s first black president to the White House, a growing tourism program in Alabama embraces the state's role in the civil rights struggle and salutes the heroes who helped pave the way for Barack Obama’s Election Day victory.
The state Department of Transportation board is considering asking lawmakers for a per diem increase of almost 65 percent at the same time the agency freezes funding for local construction projects.
Macon and Bibb County are in line for more than $4 million in federal funding to fight the effects of foreclosures, and other Middle Georgia counties likely will split hundreds of thousands more from a federal response to the mortgage crisis.
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Conceding that it's been passive for too long while other Midwestern states actively recruit new industry, the Milwaukee 7 economic strategy consortium Thursday rolled out its first-ever systematic business attraction plan.
If much of the Congress' criticism of Detroit's Big Three automakers seems to be coming from south of the Mason-Dixon Line, that may be because foreign competitors like Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. and Germany's Daimler AG have established their beachheads in Southern states.
Georgia transportation officials are abuzz over the prospect that the U.S. Department of Transportation will give the state millions of dollars to add tolls to HOV lanes in a 14-mile section of I-85, mostly in Gwinnett County.
Gov. Sonny Perdue Thursday announced the signing of two contracts worth $1.2 billion to consolidate and outsource the state government's information technology operations.
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